That Was The Week That Was

This was probably the first politicalsatireTV show back in the very early 1960's on the BBC. The name was often abbreviated to TW3. It was cancelled in 1963 in the run up to a general election for fear of affecting the result (a truely more innocent time).

It was a starting point for a very large number of britishcomedy careers such as Ned Sherin, Willy Rushton, Roy Kinnear, and Lance Percival.

The opening song ("That was the week that was, It's over so let it go ...") was sung every week by Millicent Martin and including lyrics referring to the news of the week just gone. Lance Percival would also sing a topical calypso each week.

There was an American version of it though apparently although it used basically the same format (and the same name and abbreviation) it was not sanctioned and paid no royalties to the UK creators of the format.